Gene Wolfe Quotes
There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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My health is fine.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Self-discovery means learning to live free!
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Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them.
